Pakistan’s military has accused India’s air force of violating its airspace, and says it scrambled jets in response. Military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor tweeted: “Indian Air Force violated Line of Control. Pakistan Air Force immediately scrambled. Indian aircrafts gone back. Details to follow.” He added that Indian aircraft “released [a] payload in haste… near Balakot”. There has been no ...

Spike Lee did not do much to hide his displeasure when Green Book beat his film and six others to this year’s best picture Oscar. According to one report, the BlacKkKlansman director tried to storm out of the Dolby Theatre when the winner was read out by Julia Roberts. “I thought I was courtside at the [Madison Square] Garden and ...

Cardinal George Pell has been found guilty of sexual offences in Australia, making him the highest-ranking Catholic figure to receive such a conviction. Pell abused two choir boys in the rooms of a Melbourne cathedral in 1996, a jury found. He had pleaded not guilty. The verdict was handed down in December, but it could not be reported until now ...

The British Government has provided 50 million pounds to the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, a charitable foundation for the elimination of blinding Trachoma in four African Countries including Zambia from 2013 to 2019. Speaking at media breakfast briefing on the Trachoma elimination update, Department for International Development (DfID) Zambia Deputy Head, Andrew Ockenden has reiterated  the need to take ...

UPND President Hakainde Hichilema has described the recent proposed constitution amendment by the pf government as an assault and abrogation of the democratic rights of citizens. Speaking during an opposition alliance media briefing at the upnd secretariat, Mr Hichilema says the constitution making process is a preserve of the Zambian people and that pf has no right to bulldoze the ...

The Football Association of Zambia has announced that National Team Coach Sven Vandenbroek’s contract will not be renewed when it comes to an end next month. And National team assistant coach Chintu Kampamba has been dropped, while Green Eagles Coach Aggrey Chiyangi and his ZANACO counterpart Numba Mumamba have been roped in as first and second assistants to the outgoing ...

The Felix Mutati led MMD faction has rebutted media reports suggesting that the Constitutional Court dismissed its petition to have its leader declared as the legitimate MMD president. Faction National Secretary Raphael Nakachinda says it is not true that the Constitutional Court has made any such decision. Mr. Nakachinda says what the Court did in its ruling was to basically ...

Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition Alliance Country Coordinator Mathews Mhuru has appealed to government to give an update on the relief food distribution to hunger stricken districts across the country. Mr. Mhuru says despite government’s assurances that the distribution of relief food is ongoing in 60 needy districts,  the Alliance has continued to receive reports of hunger in some districts ...

Students at public universities have been advised to realize they still have the option of suing government if their quest to have the meal allowances reinstated fails. Human rights lawyer Moono Mapani says the decision by government to unilaterally abolish meal allowances was an infringement of the students’ rights. Mr. Mapani explains that the High Education Act, under which all ...

Government has insisted it will not be rushed into tabling the Access to Information Bill in Parliament for enactment into law. Information and Broadcasting Services Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo says he personally does not want to produce a Bill that is full of lacunas. Mr. Kasolo has charged that officials from his Ministry who have been working on the Bill ...